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Yuval Merin
2004 Williams Institute Visiting Scholar

Please join the Williams Institute in welcoming Professor Yuval Merin as the third Williams Institute Visiting Scholar. Professor Merin will be on the UCLA School of Law campus as part of the Williams Institute faculty during the 2004 spring semester in order to continue his research and writing on gender, sexuality and the law.

Professor Merin received an LL.B. (J.D. equivalent, 1993) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Masters of Laws, with a concentration in International and Constitutional Law (1997), and a Doctor of Judicial Science (2000), both from New York University School of Law. In Jerusalem, he worked as a legal assistant at the Civil Legal Aid Association (1991-2), as a legal intern at Moshe Argov & Co. (1993), and as a judicial clerk for Justice Mishael Cheshin in the Supreme Court of Israel (1993-4). In New York, Merin worked as a legal advisor at Trachtenberg & Rodes and as a research assistant for Professors David A. J. Richards and Ronald Dworkin.

Professor Merin has taught at Haifa University School of Law and Tel Aviv University School of Law. He is currently a senior law lecturer and full-time faculty member at the College of Management School of Law in Tel Aviv, Israel. Professor Merin's areas of teaching include Civil Procedure; Sexuality, Gender and the Law; and International Protection of Human Rights.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• EQUALITY FOR SAME-SEX COUPLES: THE LEGAL RECOGNITION OF GAY PARTNERSHIPS IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES, Chicago, University of Chicago Press 2002.
• The Case Against Official Monolingualism: The Idiosyncrasies of Minority Language Rights in Israel and the United States, 6 ILSA J INT’L & COMP L 1 (1999).
• Symposium Proceedings: Recent Developments in International Law: Models for the Legal Recognition and Regulation of Same-Sex Partnerships: A Comparative Overview, 26 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 169 (2001).
• Same-Sex Marriage and the Failure of Alternatives for the Regulation of Gay Partnerships, 7 HAMISHPAT 253 (2002) [Hebrew].